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Events

• January 21 - The Spire of Dublin is completed.
• May 11 – Benvenuto Cellini's Saliera is stolen from the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna.
• November - Gustav Klimt's Landhaus am Attersee sells for $29,128,000.

Full date unknown

• Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design takes over the Byam Shaw School of Art.

Exhibitions

• Jim Sanborn, Critical Assembly, Corcoran School of Art
• Patti Smith, Strange Messenger, The Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh

Awards

• Archibald Prize - Geoffrey Dyer, a portrait of Richard Flanagan
• Beck's Futures - Rosalind Nashashibi
• Schock Prize in Visual Arts - Susan Rothenberg
• Turner Prize - Grayson Perry
• Wynne Prize - Tim Kyle, Seated Figure

Works

• Tony Cragg - Stainless Steel Pillar

Deaths

January to March

• 20 January - Al Hirschfeld, American caricaturist (b.1903).
• 21 January - Tony O'Malley, Irish painter (b.1913).
• 27 January - Louis Archambault, Canadian sculptor (b.1915).
• 2 February - Emerson Woelffer, American painter (b.1914).
• 10 February - Edgar de Evia, Mexican-born American photographer (b.1910).
• 14 March - Jack Goldstein, Canadian-born American performance and conceptual artist turned painter (b.1945).

April to June

• 9 April - Jorge Oteiza, Spanish sculptor, painter, designer and writer (b.1908).
• 16 April - Graham Stuart Thomas, English horticultural artist, author and garden designer (b.1909).
• 23 April - Fernand Fonssagrives, French photographer (b.1910).
• 13 May - Jef Friboulet, French painter and sculptor (b.1919).
• 29 May - Pierre Restany, French art critic and cultural philosopher (b.1930).
• 7 June - Georges Pichard, French comics artist (b.1920).

July to September

• 15 August - Kirk Varnedoe, American art historian, writer and curator (b.1946).
• 21 August - Wesley Willis, American artist and musician (b.1963).
• 29 August - Vladimír Vašíček, Czech painter (b.1919).
• 1 September - Terry Frost, English artist noted for his abstracts (b.1915).

October to December

• 3 October - William Steig, American cartoonist, sculptor and author (b.1907).
• 16 October - Avni Arbaş, Turkish artist (b.1919).
• 9 November - Mario Merz, Italian artist (b.1925).
• 15 December - George Fisher, American political cartoonist (b.1923).
• 17 December - Wally Hedrick, American artist (b.1928).